Spelling Words 19

a word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root. Something that is attached, joined, or added. (verb) to secure to another, attach, to place at the end.

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

the invention of new words; an invented word or phrase; the process of making coins

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. Informal in style or expression.

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context.

the formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend.

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

an accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds